The Washington critic., 1887-10-31
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

lOl lUD VI luL LA IL
Says Washington special to the
New York Sunday san: AS the gay
crowd came up Pennsylvania avenue
after the matinees Saturday, happy In
the thought that their long vigil was
TO cease, vision appeared turning into
the Avenue from Fifteenth street, op.
posite the Treasury. All felt the truth
at once. 1t was Mr.. Berry Wall at last.
His five days of semi retirement had
sent him forth as thing of beauty.
The eyes of the fair women who gazed
upon him shoBe no brighter than did
his heavy bell shaped silk hat. A three.
buttoned cutaway coat, which fitted so
tightly that the gentle breathing of Its
wearer nearly burst the buttons,
matched well the diagonally. striped
brown trousers. A blue satin waist
coat, with daisies worked In red gold,
threw member of the English Lega.
tiop, the best dressed man in Washing.
ton, nearly into spasm. Below
collar so high that 1t forced Mr.. Walls
chin into the air, peeped ribbed shirt
as thick as an inch board. The cravat
was small affair so that the shirt
would not be hidden. 1t was dark
green and held together with a
large and brilliant emerald. MIR.
as his shirt and us stiff.
The white rose he wore was simply too
large and beautiful to speak Of Such
thing was never seen here. In the
matter of shoes his manhood asserted
itself, and he boldly wore again the
round, broad toes. Although the
crowd on the Avenue was great to day,
Mr.. Wall saw no one. He walked
with his eyes gazing dreamily at the
now blue sky. His hands, which were
covered with light brown, almost red,
gloves, were Behind his back, and from
them listlessly dangled a cane with
huge horses head Of ebony. Men,
women and children looked aud sighed
as he glided along, but he needed them
not. When he reached Ninth street
he turned with military precision and
moved back up the Avenue. Again,
his line of march was crowded with
admiring throngs, but he went serenely
on his way up to ii street and disap.
peared In the wide doorway of the
Metropolitan Club. His walk, little
more than two miles, lasted exactly one
hour, and during that time he looked
at no one and gave NO sign that he was
alive.
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Chester Dawes, son OF the Massa.
chusetts Senator, and one of the assist.
ant counsel around at the general
offices of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, Is Yale man and Of the class
OF 1876. As he was looking out of one
of the windows of the big railroad
building on Adams street last Monday.
says the Chicago Herald, he espied
Creighton Webb, who was also '78
man at New Haven. Dawes, over
joyed at seeing an old class mate out
here at Chicago, raised the window
and halloed with all his might ut
Creighton. The latter finally caught
the sound, and, turning about, &c.
knowledged the salutation, but shouted
back that he had u friend with him.
Dawes bawled out in the old time
here, Creighton" So Creighton Webb
little room In the general office building
Railroad. When they got up there
Creighton, half out Of breath, intro.
duced his friend to Dawes as Ellis
Grace, the Duke Of Marlborough.
For an instant the assistant railroad
attorney was taken aback; but, the
momentary embarrassment over, the
trio shook hands and had really good
time-just as II one of the number had
not been duke and the other two Or
dinary commoners.
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Says an Albany correspondent of the
Tribune: Some one asked Mr.. Sherman
about the particulars of the long con.
test for the Speakership of the House
of Representatives in 1859, when he
was the Republican candidate. Mr..
Sherman gave them, and then said: 81
saw that | could not be elected and de.
termined that some Republican shoull
be. The House of Representatives
was divided politically into Republi.
cans, Democrats and Americans. Tho
Americans from the South refused to
support me because / had recon-.
mended Helpers book-a sort OF
Abolition pamphlet. / thought they
would vote for Pennington, Republi.
can member from New Jersey, and
found, upon inquiry. that they would
do so. / therefore informed my
friends that was no longer candi.
date and asked them to vote for Pen.
nipgton. Two of them for time re.
fused to give up my canvass. One of
them was Thaddeus Stevens of
Pennsylvania. watched the &c.
tion of the boilers anXiously,
as the election of Pennington depended
upon their voting for him. However.
both voted for him; Stevens In a very
low tone of voice. When a vote was
taken the next day In the House of
Representatives, Stevens had been EN-
barrassed in his action by his statement
that he was going to vote for John
Sherman till the crack of doom. Some
one went up to him after he voted for
Pennington and said; See here,
Stevens, thought you were going TO
vote for Sherman till the crack of
DOOM Stevens looked up with Il
comical look and said Well, | thought
! heard 1t cracking"
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Speaking Of two distinguished
"Michiganders, the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Sun says
of Judge Cooley that he is very hard
worker, beginning early and sitting up